case history

1. 1.

   detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment

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Questions about case history

What does case history mean?

case history means "detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment".

Is case history a common word?

case history is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.